grand piano

Classification: 3 Chordophones / 31 Simple chordophones or zithers / 314 Board zithers / 314.1 True board zithers / 314.1-4-8 True board zithers sounded by hammers or beaters, with keyboard

Piano maker: Krall & Seidler

Date: ca. 1871

Village / Town: Warsaw

Country: Congress Kingdom of Poland / present-day Poland

Owner: Andrzej Szwalbe Collection, Ostromecko Palace near Bydgoszcz. Bought in 1978 from Wiesława Dworzyńska from Warsaw

Inventory number: MOK-VII-FZ-031, formerly PN-VI-60-81a

Description: rosewood veneered. Straight-, single-, double-, triple-strung; composite frame with four metal stress bars and a capo tasto bar for the upper half of stringing. Viennese action with lever damperps

Inscriptions: on the keyboard cover, a rectangular label inlaid in brass and tin, with a floral decoration: KRALL & SEIDLER; on the pin block, a rectangular light plate with an oval stamp, decorated with a floral ornament and crossed instruments: FABRYKA FORTEPIANÓW / KRALL & SEIDLER / w WARSZAWIE / N^o 3759; on the inside of casing’s right wall, a printed paper sticker with medals from 1838-1870: Medale 1^ej Klassy / LIST POCHWALNY 1845 / FABRYKA FORTEPIANÓW / KRALL i SEIDLER / przy Ulicy Marszałkowskiéj N^o 1372 w domu własnym / założona w roku 1829 [hand signature in ink] Krall i Seidler / w Lit. J. Flack(?) [lithographer]

Measurements: height 350 (910), width 1375, depth 2170 mm

Materials: wood, metal, ivory

Keyboard compass, stops: A₂-a⁴ – 7 octaves, two pedals – una corda and dampers

Catalog card by: Benjamin Vogel

Bibliography: B. Vogel, Fortepian polski. Budownictwo fortepianów na ziemiach polskich od poł. XVIII w. do II wojny światowej, (Warszawa 1995), pp. 238-240; B. Vogel, Polskie fortepiany XIX-XX w. Kolekcja Muzeum Historii Przemysłu w Opatówku, (Opatówek 1994); B. Vogel, Kolekcja zabytkowych fortepianów Filharmonii Pomorskiej, (Bydgoszcz, ²1987) p. 48

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